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Field Activity Details for field activity 1986-001-FA

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Other ID: 86-1

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John Moody

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Subsurface mooring #308 launched at station VSB.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1986-02-25

End Date: 1986-02-25

Equipment Used: Loran-C, Grab sampler, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Subsurface mooring deployed: 1 (#308 recovered FA 86005 ASTERIAS Apr. 28-30, 1986).

Staff: John Larson, John Moody, William J. Strahle

Affiliate Staff:
Val Wilson - WHOI

Notes:

Location:

Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.44444 South: 41.33333 West: -70.7733 East: -70.66667

Platform(s):

photo of Asterias
Asterias

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Brief Chief Scientist's report including personnel, daily narrative, tabulated information, fathometer record showing mooring location.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Loran-C --- Navigation
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
1986-001-FA-SC-001 (GRAB, SUBMERSIBLE SAMPLE samples)
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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